Content, Copyright & Recording Responsibilities

Screenshots

You are responsible for ensuring you have the legal right to capture, save, process, or share the screenshots you take. That right is not automatic. A screenshot can contain another person’s messages, a client’s data, an employer’s internal systems, a paywalled document, or someone else’s creative work.

Worth pausing over: SnapTree makes screenshots searchable. Text that was previously buried in an image you would never find again becomes findable in seconds. That is the point of the product — and it means a screenshot you took casually may be far more accessible later than you expected. Capture with that in mind.

Screen recording and audio

Recording laws vary by jurisdiction, and some are strict. In parts of the United States and in many other countries, recording a conversation requires the consent of every participant, not just you. Getting this wrong can carry civil and, in some places, criminal consequences.

You are responsible for obtaining any consent required before recording:

• People
• Meetings
• Calls
• Video conferences
• Presentations
• Audio, including system audio from a call or meeting
• Workplace communications

SnapTree’s recorder captures your screen and, if you enable it, system audio — the sound your Mac is playing, which during a call includes the other participants’ voices. It does not record your microphone. Recording runs only between an explicit start and stop, with an indicator visible the whole time.

Announcing that you are recording, and getting agreement before you start, is usually both the legal answer and the decent one.

Copyright

SnapTree does not give you ownership rights in third-party content. Capturing a copyrighted work does not create a licence to it.

You must comply with copyright and licensing obligations when capturing, storing, reproducing, or distributing content — including articles, books, films, images, designs, code, course material, and paywalled or subscription material. Keeping a personal copy and republishing it are very different acts, and the second is where most problems begin.

Confidential information

You should not record, capture, or distribute confidential, employer-owned, client-owned, privileged, or proprietary information unless you are authorised to do so.

Employment agreements, client contracts, NDAs, and professional duties routinely restrict what may be copied off a system or retained after an engagement ends — and those restrictions apply to screenshots exactly as they apply to files. If you work in a regulated field such as healthcare, law, or finance, additional obligations may apply to material you capture.

Where responsibility sits

Oosan Studios, LLC does not monitor whether you have permission to capture content and is not responsible for unauthorised use. We have no technical ability to know: your screenshots and recordings stay on your Mac, and we hold no copy of them. That is a deliberate privacy property — and its corollary is that we cannot review, moderate, or intervene, and cannot help after the fact.

These responsibilities are also stated in the Terms of Service, section 10, which is the binding version. This page exists to say the same thing in language you can actually use.